[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw":3,"chapter-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-70":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Reborn in 1981: Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1933951,2572,"Chapter 70: Big purchase for the mountains","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-70",70,"\u003Cp>This time, Li Long took Tao Daqiang to the Old Street Station first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Approaching the New Year, the flow of people at Old Street had obviously increased a lot. Cars stopped at the station like iron monsters spitting people out, and then picked people up and roared away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long, like last time, carried the urea bag and asked everyone he met:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fellow villager, do you want fish? Fresh large carp, grass carp, caught yesterday, the price is cheap!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The script was very simple, but it was really useful when said a lot. Out of ten people, one or two always wanted to see Li Long's fish, and among those who looked, one out of four or five always wanted to buy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After selling more than twenty fish here, Li Long went to the Agricultural Machinery Factory family quarters again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first time he sold fish in Shicheng was here, so Li Long was familiar with the road. What surprised him was that the gatekeeper grandpa actually still recognized him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Young man, you haven't come to sell fish for a while, is it still that price?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yeah, grandpa, do you want one?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright, give me a Wudaohai!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long laughed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grandpa knows his stuff, this fish meat is delicious.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's right, when I was young, I also caught fish in the Mahe River, I definitely know what fish is delicious.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After picking a large Wudaohai for the gatekeeper grandpa, Li Long collected two yuan and walked into the family quarters with the bag on his back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As usual, he spread out the plastic sheet and laid the fish out one by one. Before he could finish taking out the fish, people came over to ask for the price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people had bought it before and knew that the fish Li Long sold was indeed fresh, not the kind of soft \"expired fish\" after thawing, so as soon as they saw Li Long set up the stall, they came over immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people hadn't bought it before and wanted to ask, and as a result, after others said so, they decided to buy a fish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What Li Long didn't expect was that just in the two places of Old Street and the Agricultural Machinery Factory, all the fish he brought were sold out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the crucian carp didn't remain. A hunchbacked old lady wanted ten kilograms of crucian carp and said she would freeze them and eat them slowly—this fish is delicious, the soup is milky white, and it's also fragrant when stewed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Really knows her stuff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From this moment on, Li Long felt that life was slowly getting better, and everyone could afford fish for the New Year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carrying the 105 yuan he had just received, Li Long and Tao Daqiang drove the horse cart back. At this time, the sun hadn't reached noon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today the fish sold relatively quickly, Li Long hummed a song, took out a five-yuan note, and handed it to Tao Daqiang:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Daqiang, take it, you also need to buy some New Year goods.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brother Long, I still owe five yuan from last time...\" Tao Daqiang didn't take it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Take it first.\" Li Long said, \"I'm going to the mountains tomorrow, and after I come back, we have to sell fish two more times. There are quite a few people who want to buy fish before the New Year, so we'll earn two more times. You buy some New Year goods first and take them back, and let your dad be happy too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tao Daqiang took the money, his mood a bit complicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two drove the horse cart to the county town, and Li Long went to the supply and marketing cooperative first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You watch the horse cart first, I'll buy some things, and then we'll go to the department store.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright.\" Tao Daqiang had no objections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long entered the supply and marketing cooperative's retail department and started purchasing. This trip was mainly to buy things for Halimu and Yushanjiang. He bought five axes for chopping wood, Li Long wanted one for himself, and the remaining two were for Halimu and Yushanjiang, two each. He also bought quite a lot of saws, ropes, plastic sheets, sickles, and kantuman (a kind of farm tool similar to a hoe but with a round head).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After buying these things, Li Long calculated that it cost a total of thirty-four yuan. Not much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was too far from the value of that piece of jade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long thought about going to the black market to buy some grain before going to the mountains tomorrow, and that would be fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Li Long buy so many things, Tao Daqiang was also a bit surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Friends in the mountains need them, they helped me a lot, so I'll bring them some things too.\" Li Long explained, and Tao Daqiang understood, feeling that Brother Long was really loyal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Going to the department store, Li Long let Tao Daqiang go buy things first. Tao Daqiang walked around inside for a long time holding the five yuan, and only bought half a kilogram of fruit hard candy and some peanuts—this had to be set out for the New Year. He also bought two bottles of canned food and two bags of granulated sugar, which were intended for visiting relatives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Tao Daqiang came out, Li Long went in again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were quite a few people in the department store, and Li Long found that some new goods had arrived, and there was also fruit for sale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Long just remembered that his sister-in-law seemed to have put those fruits in the spare room, intending to eat them during the New Year. Although his nephew and niece were greedy, they hadn't gone to take them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he bought two kilograms of frozen persimmons—this kind of millstone persimmon was still rare here. And two kilograms of apples—at this time, Aksu apples were not as famous as Ili apples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>!.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fruit was a rarity at this time, especially in winter. In summer, there were families in the team who grew hairy peaches, crabapples, plums, etc., and there could be pears, melons, and tomatoes in the fields, but there was nothing in winter. If a family had good preservation technology and could store melons (the mother melon of black flat melon seeds, similar to watermelon, but the melon pulp is not very sweet) until winter to eat as fruit, that was already very rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fruit was scarce, so it was naturally expensive. One kilogram of frozen persimmons was 1.5 yuan, and one kilogram of apples was 1.2 yuan, the same price as meat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coming out of the department store, when the two were driving the horse cart preparing to go home, passing by the grain store, Li Long found that the notice board outside wrote \"To celebrate the Spring Festival, this store sells a batch of special-priced grain, no grain coupons needed,\" and immediately asked Tao Daqiang to stop the horse cart and tie it well, and he excitedly entered the grain store.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How is the special-priced grain sold?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rice is 0.68 yuan, flour is 0.45 yuan.\" The two salesclerks were chatting and reported the price directly without looking at Li Long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give me one hundred kilograms of rice and one hundred kilograms of flour.\" Li Long opened his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\" The salesclerk was startled!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quite a few people bought special-priced grain in the past two days, but they all bought three or five kilograms, where was there anyone buying by the hundred kilograms?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How much is one hundred kilograms? The largest flour bag now is twenty-five kilograms, four large bags!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One hundred kilograms of rice and one hundred kilograms of flour, you won't have insufficient stock, right?\" Li Long asked when he saw the salesclerk not speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Enough, of course enough, but are you really going to buy so much?\" The salesclerk confirmed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course it's true.\" Li Long said with a smile, it was sold by the public without grain coupons, even if it was old grain, he would recognize it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Don't say, it was really old grain, and it was more expensive than the flat price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no coupons needed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When eight bags of rice and flour were put on the cart, all the money Li Long sold fish for today was used, and he added some more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he was happy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least at home and in the mountains, they wouldn't have to eat coarse grain for a short time! But he couldn't buy too much, grain is easy to get damp during the change of winter and spring, so he would continue to buy after spring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Covering the rice and flour with plastic sheets, driving the horse cart, and happily rushing home, Li Long was already humming a song.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Tao Daqiang followed beside him enviously, thinking to himself when he could spend money as generously as Brother Long!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 71 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",1495,"2026-06-14T06:06:39.549Z",1,"Qwen3.5 122B","f36b36813bf3c0f70c1b39a740d9915b49d11f3dbc884b7f8cfa1032eeb3d6fb","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-71","reborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-chapter-69",180,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Freborn-in-1981-fishing-and-hunting-in-the-northw-cover.jpg"]